Critics have also compared the acoustic and relaxed melodies of Sea Change to the works of British singer-songwriter Nick Drake and Bob Dylan's 1975 album Blood on the Tracks.

Denzel Washington was nominated for Best Actor at the 1996 Chicago Film Critics Association Awards, but lost to Billy Bob Thornton in Sling Blade.

Critics hailed him at the time as the " new Bob Dylan ", given a similar vocal timbre and thoughtful songwriting.

Among Besson's awards are the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film Critics Prize, Fantasporto Audience Jury Award-Special Mention, Best Director, and Best Film, for Le Dernier Combat in 1983 ; The Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Silver Ribbon-Best Director-Foreign Film, for La Femme Nikita, 1990 ; the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film, Nil by Mouth, 1997 ; and the Best Director Cesar Award, for The Fifth Element, 1997.

| Silver Bear for Best Actress in Berlin International Film Festival Nominated-BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading RoleNominated-Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture DramaNominated-Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting ActressNominated-Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best CastNominated-Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion PictureNominated-Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

* Argentine Film Critics Association Silver Condor Nomination for Best Foreign Film ( 1992 )

Edith Evans was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and won the BAFTA Award, the Silver Bear for Best Actress award at the 17th Berlin International Film Festival, the National Board of Review award, the New York Film Critics Circle award, and the Golden Globe Award all for Best Actress.

His film Ugetsu ( 1953 ) won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and appeared in the Sight & Sound Critics ' Top Ten Poll in 1962 and 1972.

* Argentinian Film Critics Association Awards: Silver Condor ; Best Actress, Norma Aleandro ; Best Cinematography, Félix Monti ; Best Director, Luis Puenzo ; Best Editing, Juan Carlos Macías ; Best Film ; Best New Actress, Analía Castro ; Best Original Screenplay, Aída Bortnik and Luis Puenzo ; Best Supporting Actor, Patricio Contreras ; Best Supporting Actress, Chela Ruiz ; 1986.

He earned three Martín Fierro Awards ( 1970, 1990, and 1993 ); and an Argentine Film Critics Association Silver Condor awards for Best Actor for his roles in Made in Argentina and Convivencia.

Silver Ribbon from the Italian National Syndicate of Film Critics and Journalists ( Italy ), 1985.

My Dog Skip won the Broadcast Film Critics Award for " Best Family Film " for the year 2000, Silver Medal Giffoni Film Festival Award, Best Cast Young Star Awards, Silver Angel Award winner, ArkTrust Genesis Award and the Christopher Award for Best Family Film.

Critics note, among other things, that van Onselen provides no evidence that Silver was ever in London during the time of the murders, and that the accusation is based entirely upon speculation.

* Argentine Film Critics Association Awards: Silver Condor ; Best Supporting Actress, Adriana Aizemberg ; 2005.

* Argentine Film Critics Association Awards: Silver Condor, Best Actor ( Mejor Actor Protagonico ), Daniel Hendler ; Best Director ( Mejor Director ), Daniel Burman ; Best Editing ( Mejor Compaginación ), Alejandro Brodersohn ; Best Film ( Mejor Película ); Best Music ( Mejor Música ), César Lerner ; Best New Actress ( Mejor Revelación Femenina ), Rosita Londner ; Best Screenplay, Original ( Mejor Guión Original de Ficción ), Marcelo Birmajer and Daniel Burman ; Best Supporting Actor ( Mejor Actor de Reparto ), Jorge D ' Elía ; 2005.

* Argentine Film Critics Association Awards: Silver Condor, Best Art Direction, Cristina Nigro ; Best Cinematography, Ramiro Civita ; Best Editing, Jacopo Quadri ; Best First Film, Enrique Piñeyro ; Best Original Screenplay, Enrique Piñeyro ; Best Sound, Marcos De Aguirre ; Best Supporting Actor, Alejandro Awada ; 2006.

FeardotCom won ' Worst Film ' at the 2003 Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards and ' Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in Silver ' at 2003 Fantafestival.

* Argentine Film Critics Association Awards: Silver Condor ; Best Actor, Ricardo Darín ; Best Cinematography, Marcelo Camorino ; Best Director, Fabián Bielinsky ; Best Editing, Sergio Zottola ; Best Film ; Best Original Screenplay, Fabián Bielinsky ; Best Supporting Actress, Elsa Berenguer ; 2001.

The film received 17 awards including the Grand Prize at the Montreal World Film Festival, the Special Jury Award for Humour at the Zagreb World Festival of Animated Films, the Golden Space Needle for Best Short at the Seattle International Film Festival, Best Animated Film at the Tampere Film Festival, the Silver Plaque for Animation at the Chicago International Film Festival, the Hiroshima Prize at the Hiroshima International Animation Festival, the FIPRESCI International Film Critics ' Prize at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival and a Genie Award for Best Animated Short.

* Argentine Film Critics Association Awards: Silver Condor ; Best Actress, Susú Pecoraro ; Best Director, Adolfo Aristarain ; Best Film ; 2005.

* Argentine Film Critics Association Awards: Silver Condor, Best Art Direction, Jorge Ferrari ; Best Cinematography, José Luis Alcaine ; Best Costume Design, Valentina Bari and Kathy Saavedra ; Best Editing, Fernando Pardo ; Best New Actress, Marcela Kloosterboer ; Best Original Screenplay, Adolfo Aristarain, Mario Camus and Kathy Saavedra ; Best Sound, Daniel Goldstein and Ricardo Steinberg ; 2005.

* Argentine Film Critics Association, The Silver Condor Award ( Russian Ark, 2004 )

Critics referred to him as the " John Wayne " or " Anthony Quinn " of Egyptian cinema and of the Arabic speaking World ", and to the masses he was the Beast of the Silver Screen, who championed the underdog, especially women, and the dispossessed using an effective mixture of cunning, physical strength, personal charm, and unbending principles, to overcome the wicked aggressors.

* Argentine Film Critics Association Awards: Silver Condor for Best Supporting Actor for La maffia, 1973.

* Argentine Film Critics Association Awards: Nominated for four Silver Condors ( 1998, 2001, 2002, and 2003 ).

Vincent Canby, in an " NYT Critics ' Pick " review of the documentary, called McElwee a " film maker-anthropologist with a rare appreciation for the eccentric details of our edgy civilization "; the film " which was made in 1981, is a timely memoir of the 80's.

Critics Siskel and Ebert each rated the film among the top three of the 1986 film year ; Ebert's 1986 review of the film called it " the best movie Allen has ever made.

Critics felt that the Foundation was too quick to renovate some historic structures and did not follow necessary review procedures, including that required by the State Environmental Quality Review Act ( SEQRA ).

Critics said that intelligent design proponents had set up their own journals with " peer review " which lacks impartiality and rigor, and pointed to ISCID's journal Progress in Complexity, Information, and Design as an example, characterizing the ISCID fellows who comprise PCID < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s reviewers as " ardent supporters of intelligent design.

Bosley Crowther, in a " Critics ' Pick " review, called the film a " frank and ferocious social drama that makes the eyes pop and the modest cheek burn "; he had comments on several of the performances:

On Rotten Tomatoes, only 39 percent of critics gave the film a positive review, though Top Critics gave it a s score of 51 percent, and has an Audience Score of 72 percent.

It is the professional association of American book review editors and critics, known primarily for the National Book Critics Circle Awards, a set of literary awards presented every March.

Film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 77 % of critics gave the film positive reviews, with a positive 86 % rating from selected " Top Critics ".

Of the more recent reviews, opinion on Never Say Never Again is still mixed: film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes lists the film with a positive 65 % " fresh " rating from 34 reviews ; among the reviewers listed in " Top Critics " the score rises to 71 % from 7 reviews.

Critics responded positively to the album and a review in Allmusic said that " Thile and the Watkins siblings ' originals, easily outdo the likes of folk-rockers Dave Matthews and Hootie & the Blowfish, while forging a new style to rejuvenate a genre that has always been a bit of a dark horse.

Critics lauded Turoks graphics ; while giving the rest of the game a tepid review, Burrill rated the visuals highly.

On BBC Radio's The Critics, Ivor Brown began his review by describing the play's setting — a one-room flat in the Midlands — as ' unspeakably dirty and squalid.

Critics of Aspartame have expressed concerns that numerous health risks may be associated with its consumption ; however peer-reviewed comprehensive review articles and independent reviews by governmental regulatory bodies have analyzed the published research on the safety of aspartame and have described it as safe for consumption at current levels.

They once received a booby-prize at the Critics Awards for bringing the reputation of critics into disrepute for writing a review that was not only positive but actually made sense.

Critics cited Power as Depeche Mode meets Underworld and one review claimed " VI makes music for the mind that shakes the behind.

Critics of the time did not react well ; typical was Bosley Crowther's review in The New York Times, which read in part, " evident talent has been spent upon a pointless, trashy yarn, and the best that he has accomplished is a turgid pictorial grotesque ... he tried to bluff it with a very poor script — and failed ... screenplay is without any real dramatic virtue, reason or valid story-line ... little more than a melange of maggoty episodes having to do with the devious endeavors of a cheap London night-club tout to corner the wrestling racket — an ambition in which he fails.

Critics also praised the performances of Rachel McAdams and Cillian Murphy with Roger Ebert stating on his review that McAdams ' " performance is so convincing because she keeps it at ground level " and that " she remains plausible even when the action ratchets up around her.

Critics reacted positively to the opening sequence ; in his review of the episode, Mark McGuire of The Times Union wrote: "... the first minute or so of the resurrected Family Guy ranks among the funniest 60 seconds I've seen so far this season.

Critics gave mixed reviews to the film, with a " Rotten " score of 56 % on review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, and its consensus reading: " unoriginal and unremarkable high school satire adds little to the genre.

* Lengthy review from the website of two members of the Kansas City Film Critics Circle

Critics gave mixed review of the song, with one group denoting it as a classic while the others felt it was sub-par compared to the other Madonna singles.